11-18-2008

Hey everybody We're playing a show this Thursday to celebrate our new record Heart To Elk. We're lucky enough to be joined by two of our favorite bands: A Weather and Deer or the Doe. Back in September we spent the best parts of a balmy Colorado weekend traveling and playing shows with A Weather. They played on our equipment and It was like watching yourself, better dressed and in a dream; doing the things you always thought you could on your bicycle. It was cool. Aaron and Cassie from Deer or the Doe did the marvelous printing for Heart To Elk and we're working with them now on packaging for the vinyl release (see paragraph 3). We're making a record with them at our home studio where we made Heart To Elk and we've spent two vegan lasagna fueled days listening to them play their gorgeous radon-atmosphered dance music in our living room. Since they left the DVD remote has been missing. Don't miss this band on Thursday! We've been lucky to attract some inspired people to work with us in the past but this fall has been uber-jam-packed with talented collaborators. First off we're proud to announce we've teamed up with Seattle's Mt. Fuji Records http://mtfujirecords.com/ to release Heart To Elk to a wider audience. They will be giving the record a nation wide release on February 10th and in addition to re-printing the CD they will be ushering us backwards into the 20th century on Vinyl LP. Watch out Audiophiles. You can't listen to them in your car, but no DJ worthy of his vintage sneakers is going to show up to the party with MP3's under his arm. Our new friend Hart came to us with a plan to make what is crudely know as a music video -his is actually all film. We've never had one before and it seemed like a good idea so we did some filming. It was painless and he was kind, and then we kind of forgot about it for a while. But hile we slept in and over-ate Hart was hard at work and what he made is amazing. It's a cutting together of us playing Sioux Arrow and footage he took over a couple days in Portland. It does a tremendous service to the song and it's incredibly exciting after the record has been finished for a couple months to have something new created that adds to the scope of the music. It has bubbled over into a new medium without our help. We'll be showing the film at Thursday's show along with some of Hart's other work but here it is on your computer http://www.vimeo.com/2206859 Our beautiful website, curated by boy-genius Ryan Niswonger is undergoing some changes in the upcoming months. Check in to see it progress http://pointjuncturewa.com/main.html Here's a live set we did on KPSU last week http://archive.kpsu.org/node/17402 Thursday's show: Point Juncture, WA A Weather Deer or the Doe Holocene 1001 SE Morrison 9:00 PM - $7.00 Lastly we'd like to thank everyone involved in the making of this record, everyone who supported us on tour in the last couple years, and the swell people of Portland. This album and this band are truly a group effort. XO, Point Juncture

09-09-2008

Hey guys,

We're leaving for a nice little tour tomorrow and we're selling our new record along the way. It's called Heart To Elk and it's all new recordings that you've never heard before. You can stream it here on our website www.pointjuncturewa.com and if you like what you hear you can buy one right there too. It's much too fresh to be found at yer local independent record store yet so get one now before they make us put one of those bar codes on it.

This is also our first chance to play with our new four piece lineup. Andy Combs is much too wild to be kept in a cage, so we're leaving him here to feed our cat and we've re-arranged the songs to work with the four of us, and written a couple new ones to debut with this leaner, meaner PJWA. If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and check out Andy's band The Moth. http://www.myspace.com/andycombsandthemoth.

Thanks guys. Hope to see you out there.

9/10 The Great Pacific - Pendleton, Or
9/11 The Boulevard - Spokane, Wa
9/12 The Badlander - Missoula. Mt
9/13 Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, Ut
9/14 Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, Co
9/15 Hi-Dive - Denver, Co
9/16 Rim Rock Patio - Torrey, Ut
9/18 Raven Cafe - Prescott, Az
9/19 The Trunk Space - Phoenix, Az
9/22 Silverlake Lounge - Los Angeles, Ca
9/23 The Partisan - Merced, Ca
9/26 Sophie's Thai Kitchen - Davis, Ca
10/03 The Artistery - Portland, Or

08-25-2008

Hey Dudes, We're playing three shows this weekend with These United States and our pals Wye Oak just got added to the bill because their show in Lebanon (no joke) fell through. We're stoked because these are mind boggling bands and we're playing with the new four piece lineup for the first time (our dear Andy Combs is leaving the herd for greener, creepier, sparkly stratocaster pastures). in short it's going to be a blast.

Friday 8/22 - Department of Safety. Anacortes, WA
Saturday 8/23 - The Sunset Tavern. Seattle, WA
Sunday 8/24 - Holocene. Portland, OR

In album news, our second full length record "Heart to Elk", 29 years in the making, is in the bag and we'll be selling them out of the back of our van in these cities (and more to come soon) this september:

9/11 Spokane
9/12 Missoula
9/13 Salt lake City
9/14 Colorado Springs
9/15 Denver
9/17 Az. TBA
9/18 Prescott
9/19 Phoenix
9/20-25 Ca. TBA
9/26 Davis

Thanks for being our pals,
Victor

06-03-2008

Hello Everyone, We're going to be playing a benefit show this Thursday night and it'd be great to see you all there- it's for a good cause- which I've included below: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Portland's music community will be coming together at Holocene on June 5th to support Catawampus Films, and Nicaraguans suffering from CKD, an epidemic of kidney failure that epidemiologists are referring to as 'a veiled genocide.' Catawampus films is in the process of completing a documentary feature on this hidden disaster with the help of Stephen Kinzer, Alec Baldwin, Dan Koppel, and Noam Chomsky. The crew has also started a non-profit, La Isla Foundation, to support those most affected by the epidemic. Who: Point Juncture, WA Tractor Operator Reporter Hutch and Kathy (members of The Thermals) Andy Combs and The Moth Sabertooth When: Thursday, June 5th @ the Holocene 7:00pm (door) 8:00pm (show) For more event info: Amigo; a benefit for The Affected www.affectedmovie.com ___ I'm thinkin' it'll be a pretty rockin' evening. Also, for those who live in Eugene Oregon and/or for those who want to drive to Eugene Oregon: We'll be playing a show with the Blow at the WOW hall on June 13th. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 at the door and we're very, very excited to be playing this show. And on a completely unrelated note: I, Wilson, am interested in giving guitar lessons. If you're interested or know someone who might be interested, let me know. email me at wilson.vediner@gmail.com Cheers! PJWA

04-22-2008

Hey guys, I'm sending this out to let you all know about our 4/26 show at The Doug Fir with Lymbyc System http://www.myspace.com/thelymbycsystym and Head Like a Kite http://www.myspace.com/headlikeakite $8.00/9pm show. Lymbyc System from Austin/Phoenix is drone-y, well composed, instrumental music and it's totally my thing. If they lived here in town I'd have a t-shirt and I'd totally be there at every show nerding out about their keyboards, and their set list, and asking them when they're pressing the EP on vinyl. It's going to be a pretty great night of music and if you guys want to come out and hang we'd be pretty dern happy about that. Most of our Mississippi Studios show last month was video taped by David Johnston and Ryan Niswonger. Check em out here and turn your speakers all the way up for the full effect. http://youtube.com/watch?v=oAcfhdXeH1E&feature=related Yahoo, Victor

03-18-2008

Hey folks, I'm really excited about this one. We're playing this Thursday night the 20th with our good friends El Oleo Wolof from Merced, CA. We were lucky enough to play several shows with them this summer in California, and we're pretty darn excited to show them off to our friends here in town. Come out and hang. 8pm Mississippi studios. $8 Advance/$10 at the diggidy dang door. If you're in Seattle you should try to catch them at The Sunset Tavern on Sunday night with Andy Combs and The Moth. Amanda will be playing bass. It's a hoot. For those of you who have been following the soap opera that is our new record I'm proud to report that the twins have been re-united, Baron Von Olaf is back in jail, I guess the cake wasn't poisoned after all, and we've got the final mixes done at last. There are a couple songs available for listening on our myspace page http://www.myspace.com/ptjuncturewa Hopefully you won't have to wait too much longer before you've got the real thing on your super hi-fi bachelor pad sound system. Thanks for being our pals, Point Juncture guys